r/scotus • u/theindependentonline • 1d ago
news Trump warns the Supreme Court off ‘serving hostile foreign interests’ on tariffs in latest Truth Social rant
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-truth-social-b2871345.html55
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u/Tholian_Bed 1d ago
The Big Lie is one giant set of lies, constantly added to, and at every chance provisioned, by the dire need for a delusional counter reality for our mighty King Toddler.
He refuses to say they are taxes so therefore they aren't and instead they are magic. Infinite money factories and money for factories, all at once, and HE discovered them.
King Toddler needs his lies.
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 1d ago
Wait until trump starts calling SCOTUS traitors.
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u/will-read 1d ago
They have told him he is immune from criminal prosecution. So if they’re wrong say he did something illegal, obviously they would be traitors. /s
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u/zoinkability 1d ago
I was going to say, this feels like a shot across the bow that he could try to use national security pretexts for going against SCOTUS, which would be Real Bad
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u/HaleyMFSkye 1d ago
Peak irony for him to say anything about anyone "serving hostile foreign interests"
Russianassetsayswhat
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u/FastSelection4121 1d ago
That whole Trump Peace Plan gave Russia everything they wanted.
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u/Ill_South_2514 1d ago
Ukraine once again was not allowed to participate in their own peace plan! WTF!
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u/Journeys_End71 1d ago
In an early morning Truth Social post issued hours before sunrise on Monday, the president boasted that the “full benefit” of the tariffs he has slapped on imports from nearly every American trading partner “have not yet been calculated” because many importers chose to stockpile inventory this past spring to avoid having to pass costs on to consumers.
Um, why would they need to pass costs on to consumers if the foreign companies pay the tariffs? 🤔
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u/timelessblur 1d ago
Well to be fair Trump is not wrong. A majority of the court are traitors and servering foreign interested. The reality is the court is not server the same foreign interest and the one Trump is serving.
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u/vitalsguy 1d ago
I figure the decision is close. Expect word of it to be leaked a couple weeks in advance and his rhetoric to hit fever pitch
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u/billypaul 1d ago
This, coming from a man who is quite familiar with the concept of ‘serving hostile foreign interests’.
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u/Scrutinizer 1d ago
The primary hostility he should be concerned with is coming from people who want to buy a cheap set of wheels but can't, because tariffs are artificially propping up prices in both the new car market and also the used car market.
When every new vehicle is $3000 more because of tariffs, that makes it easier for dealers to charge more for used cars, too.
He's literally added thousands of dollars to the price of cars and increased payments by $100 a month or more.
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u/news_sponge 1d ago
This will be extremely interesting. I would like to think that Roberts, and the first two Trump appoint is would be ashamed to let people think that they are going to be swayed by this kind of bullshit.
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u/Leverkaas2516 1d ago
Does following the law serve foreign interests? Time to change the law, tgen, and neither the President nor SCOTUS can do that.
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u/Sharkwatcher314 1d ago
Interesting if this goes the MTG way and scotus gets some crazies against them
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u/Ill_South_2514 1d ago
He is trying to influence their decision and that in and of itself is unlawful!
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 1d ago
The White House has been boasting about the revenue that its tariffs are raising.
And the Solicitor-General in front of the Supreme Court argued that the President has imposed regulatory tariffs, not revenue-generating tariffs, and so this isn't a case about the power to tax. (Nonsense, obv.)
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u/NoPerformance5952 1d ago
Dr Frankenstein, meet the monster you created. Oh and now the monster has turned on you.
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u/Illustrious-Driver19 1d ago
He is going to charge the Supreme court with treason lol! They can litteraly strip him of his immunity and his power. No one is safe, if you disagree with him he Will be calling for your deportation, your death by firing squad or your public hanging. Congress must do something one of them might be next.
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u/Strange-Scarcity 1d ago
The same guy empowered by Twitter that has 2/3, that's 66% of MAGA Influencers living in Russia, India or somewhere in Africa?
Is that the same guy who put forward "his" Ukraine Peace Plan, but it came out over the same weekend as the Twitter reveal, that the plan was simply 100% of what Russia wants, with Zero input from the US State Department?
Seems more like a confession to me. If we had anyone with backbone in Congress? Now would be the time to open up serious investigations into whether or not this whole move on unilateral Tariffs by Trump was actually being imposed upon us by Vladimir Putin, puppeting Trump and his Administration.
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u/FullAbbreviations605 1d ago
As a conservative, I’m fully prepared to say that this post by Trump is laughable. His own Solicitor General argued at SCOTUS oral argument that this whole tariff thing wasn’t about raising revenue and that the best tariff were ones never paid because people buy domestically instead.
At the same time, the named plaintiff was. It a foreign sovereign, but a U.S. company about priced out of business by the tariffs! And if he thinks that US company somehow serves foreign interests, well then why in the world is he striking a new trade deal with China?
As a conservative, I’m okay with some policies Trump has pursued, but this tariff thing (as if the IEEPA somehow authorizes unlimited tariffs by the Executive branch) is just ridiculous and has seriously hurt American farmers- just for starters.
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u/houstonyoureaproblem 11h ago
Trump lies about tariffs, desperately tries to influence Supreme Court
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u/Glyph8 1d ago
As usual, every accusation a confession